Wikitravel:Abbreviations

In the body text of articles, the first occurrence of a term to be abbreviated should be spelt out in full with the abbreviation to be used in the rest of the article following immediately afterwards in parentheses.
An exception to this rule are those abbreviations and formats listed here and at Wikitravel:Currency, Wikitravel:Time and date formats and Wikitravel:Measurements

Editors may want to choose the appropriate abbreviation from those below which are both widely understood and unambiguous. However, don't knock yourself out "correcting" Rt to Rte - there is more important work to be done in plunging forward and writing an up-to-date and accurate free Travel Guide!

In body text, compass points start with a lower case letter if you're talking about a direction eg: "go north three blocks) but capitalized if talking about a region eg: "in the South you can find great seafood") (but not when just describing an area eg: "motels are concentrated north of Dunedin").